Virtual Waste — Wasted Pages

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Wasted Pages

Book about virtual waste

The rise of social media led to the trend of constantly sharing and multi- plying everything in order to measure a specific online identity. From my personal frustration with the constantly growing visual and textual virtual waste. I tried to concentrate on the printed word and image in my research project. I want to move contemporary digital communication transfer, with its dynamic but transitory internet pages, towards a printed, fixed medium, namely these books and newspaper.

There has been a search for a new imagery where the virtual medium is transferred to a printed medium in an artistic manner. From a personal approach a few surprising characteristics from different internet websites were represented (notably Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram and HLN.be), the objective of which was to hold up a mirror to readers, whilst creating dialogue and getting them thinking.

This book is designed in a way to look like an artist book, with its glossy paper and hardcover, to contrast with its actual content: selected photos with the hashtags ”drunk” or “passed-out” found on various blogs on Tumblr.